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The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated an analysis of 2016 premium changes in 12 states and the District of Columbia, the only states (a...

CMS's latest snapshot of private plan enrollment in ACA marketplaces shows significant attrition, from 10,197,187 total enrollments a...

* But not enough to cover Avalere's estimate of CSR-forfeiters On August 19, Avalere Health published an analysis spotlighting ACA pr...

Obama's defense of the Iran deal in an interview with the Jewish Daily Forward's editor-in-chief Jane Eisner was marked by bulletp...

Note, 2/16/18: This post, and the index of posts it introduces, originated long before the legal challenge to federal CSR reimbursement beg...

Yesterday, in a speech in Anchorage starkly laying out the current and future effects of climate change, Obama rhetorically placed his op...

I want to lay out some notes here for a regression analysis of what drives takeup (or the lack of takeup) of Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) s...

Republicans, particularly Ohio Republicans, are of course up in arms about the Obama administration's announcement that it would use it...

There's a prototype for Trump's wall along the Mexican border: If you're going to build an 1800-mile wall, why not stuff i...

Who are the Americans who get  no  help from the federal government paying for their health insurance? The uninsured, of course. Also, th...

In honor of James Fallows' found art  department : The NYT 'weekend briefing' on my phone had the image below directly beneath ...

With ACA private plan market enrollment lagging initial CBO projections, one key question is whether those who qualify for aid but remain u...

9/3/15: See update at bottom for Avalere's response to questions posed here  I may have to "never mind" this post if I'...

Over at The Incidental Economist, I have a review of IBD reporter Jed Graham's e-book analyzing flaws in the ACA and proposing a pack...

The Urban Institute has released a report * proposing that the federal government spend an extra half-trillion dollars over ten years to bo...

I have a post up at healthinsurance.org responding to a forecast by Investor's Business Daily reporter Jed Graham,to the effect that a...

Sarah Kliff has a good article about pet insurance that poses the right two questions at the outset -- courtesy of Jennifer Fitzgerald, c...

[Update, 10/28: An updated version of Einer Elhauge's article is available here .] The Wall Street Journal reports today that activi...

There's one incontrovertible point in the argument against the Congress rejecting and invalidating the nuclear agreement with Iran. Ev...

Leave aside for a moment the favored policies of the ten Republican presidential candidates in the prime-time debate  and the seven in the...